T he family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care provider and ...

Screenwriter Sammy Horowitz was incarcerated for almost a decade. He said he spent three of those years in the recently ...

(The Center Square) – The state is moving ahead with plans to tear down and reconstruct Stateville Correctional Center in Will County. The facility was built in 1925, but conditions were described as ...

Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and director of graduate studies in philosophy, has taught two courses — on ethics and, more recently, mass incarceration — at Stateville ...

Benters, who faced up to a 15-year sentence on the criminal sexual assault with force charge, will be sent to Stateville Correctional Center. He must serve 85% of his seven-year sentence, according to ...

From birth until age 11, inmates in their orange suits cut Celeste's families grass every Saturday. Her father was the warden of Joliet Correctional Center, which worked closely with Stateville ...

Jennifer Lackey is recognized for her “indefatigable commitment to and innovative leadership” of the Northwestern Prison Education program (NPEP), which made history in 2023 when incarcerated students ...